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The 1982 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Local General or Spot News Reporting

Finalist: St. Petersburg Times , by Lucy Morgan

For her series on drug smuggling in Dixie County, Florida.

Winners

Prize Winner in Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1982:

Staff

For coverage of the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster and identification of its causes. Local General or Spot News Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Local General or Spot News Reporting in 1982:

Ken Wells

For his series on Florida's water problems.

Staff

For its coverage of an explosion in the Louisville sewer system.

The Jury

Michael Gartner(Chair)*

Editor and President, Des Moines Register and Tribune

Russell Baker*

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times

William Jones*

Managing Editor, Chicago Tribune

Laurence G. O'Donnell

Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Lois Wille*

Associate Editor, Chicago Sun-Times

Winners in Local General or Spot News Reporting

1981

Staff

For its coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story, including the photographs by Roger A. Werth.
1980

Staff

For coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
1979

Staff

For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city.
1978

Richard Whitt

For his coverage of a fire that took 164 lives at the Beverly Hills Supper Club at Southgate, Ky., and subsequent investigation of the lack of enforcement of state fire codes.
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1982 Prize Winners

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